Thanks. Good suggestions!

I agree on the nasty smells and chemicals. I only use water mixable oils so I don’t have to use the dangerous smelly stuff. 😁👍

Thanks for the response and suggestions. The lighting in my painting room is very bright and direct, so somehow I've got the deal with that. Editing the photos to tone down the highlights from the glare

You too!

Welcome. Beautiful piece. I look forward to seeing more from your art blog. I post oil paintings of my photography if you are interested in following.

Great piece! Love the silhouettes against the blazing sky!

Great detail! Your photographs of the art are very well done also. I have had a problem photographing my paintings without getting a lot of glare. In my latest post , my painting lost a lot of detail and

Nice work!

It’s always amazed me how many of the great impressionist painters chose hay bales as their subject. Timeless.

I’m also a Sony shooter (A7ii) and once dropped and broke a GMaster 70-200mm lens that I originally paid .5 bitcoins back when Bitcoin was about $5000USD. It cost $700USD to repair it. That lens has cost

Nice to see more oil painters on here!

All good but the last two are amazing!

You are correct. And I’ve wiped a row of trees twice now. Can’t do that with watercolors.

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I just passed my one year anniversary of taking up painting.

At least one person is listening. :-)

These are great enhancements to the platform and should do a lot to expand the community. Thanks for all the hard work to make this happen!

Great post. You make me want to hop on a plane!

Interesting exercise. I'm currently working on an oil painting using a dark red wash on the canvas as the starting point. It really messed with my value study.

I have not tried painting or drawing birds yet, but it might make and interesting painting. Thanks!

Thanks!